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[–] Geek_King@lemmy.world 56 points 1 year ago (4 children)

As a full time remote worker, I can confirm, I'm driving so much less. My commute prior to the pandemic was 18 minutes (12.7 miles one way), so 25 miles round trip with 36 minutes spent driving each work day. My commute was short compared to a lot of other people I worked with who'd drive 45 minutes one way, some 1 hour one way! That's a lot of driving that can be cut out if the role allows for remote work.

[–] Ryan213@lemmy.world 54 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I find I'm less angry too. A lot of bad drivers out there. Lol

[–] steebo_jack@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago

Ah yah...lots of stupid drivers here just piss me off...lots of traffic compared to last year too...

[–] fluxion@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Just being stuck in traffic when you could be getting shit done is what gets me. Time/money/carbon emissions... just wasteful in every way

[–] ThePantser@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have a theory about the increase of bad drivers that seems to have happened after the pandemic. So most of the higher paid desk jobs where usually people are more intelligent mostly went to WFH. So there are less intelligent people on the road than there used to be. So now it's all idiots in cars taking free reign of the roads. Less traffic causes the idiots to be able to more freely speed and run reds. I know since working from home I drive about 90% less and when I do I am scared for my life.

[–] SheeEttin@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

As someone who works a desk job, no, there are lots of idiots in those jobs, and lots of smart people digging ditches.

[–] travysh@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

I'm lucky enough to have multiple routes to my office.

During the times that taking the back roads is dramatically slower, I'll go on the interstate. Holy hell my stress and anger levels rocket when doing that.

[–] AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I also eat at home a lot more which has a far lower ecological cost than going out to eat

[–] dingus@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

And healthier, since restaurants tend to go all out on sugar, fat, and salt to make their meals tasty.

[–] AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Oh I never said anything about eating healthy 😅

[–] metaStatic@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Food isn't medicine, it's allowed to be healthy and tasty

[–] dingus@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

For sure, it's just that restaurants more often than not take shortcuts that aren't healthy to achieve the tasty. I fully agree that you can make healthier and still very tasty food at home, they're not mutually exclusive.

[–] Ryan213@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Yeah, we make large portions when we cook so I can freeze the leftovers for lunch.

[–] jcit878@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

i just worked out im saving 2160 litres of fuel a year by not driving every day